What is the scientific merit of traditional alchemy

The quest for immortality and the creation of gold that is immortal in Bitian, this quest for eternity seems to be unattainable. However, if we put this kind of thought in the source of the long history of mankind's understanding of the world (including mankind itself), we will not use today's scientific understanding to criticize the ancients of 2,000 years ago, and we should see that at that time under the level of technology, level of understanding, social conditions, the proposed "to take the changes of all things in the sky and the earth for the work of" for the ideas I use, and based on this to tenaciously experiment, to practice, which was really a very progressive and super-progressive at that time, but also a very good idea. This is really a very progressive and forward thinking and behavior.

In fact, this pursuit of eternity has not been interrupted until today's thinking, and continue to develop, but this is already in today's scientific and technological level of exploration. Just ask today's bio-engineering, today's attempts to prolong life by freezing, what is this quest for? In the past, alchemists refined all kinds of medicines and pseudo gold and silver, and today we have literally synthesized the elements artificially, created rubies and diamonds ...... in the furnaces of scientists, and also created all kinds of substances never before seen in nature for our use. And how is this different in nature from the higgledy-piggledy of the alchemist?

Marx, in commenting on the idealistic socialists Payleye, Owen, St. Simon, and others, said, "Since we ought not to repudiate these progenitors of socialism any more than modern chemists can repudiate their ancestors, the alchemists, we ought to endeavor at any rate not to repeat their errors." So when we examine alchemy from the historical point of view, we should give full credit to their achievements, but from the level of modern scientific understanding of the waters, it is true that the ancient alchemists did many foolish things, and behind these foolish things they did do many good things that advanced civilization. If today, the discovery of the atomic nucleus metamorphosis, artificially made of new elements, imitation of natural chlorophyll or synthetic proteins, etc. can be the highest honor in the scientific community, the Nobel Prize. Then our ancestors made so many new compounds, refined all kinds of new alloys, and invented gunpowder, why shouldn't this be recognized and praised and monumentalized? Otherwise history would be unfair.